Trundle with Maokai
How to Synergize Trundle and Maokai
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Trundle Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Trundle and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Trundle with Maokai
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
Advice to Understand How Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Trundle Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Trundle in LoL
The Trundle Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Trundle sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Trundle perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Trundle is paired with Maokai, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Maokai provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Trundle is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Trundle plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Trundle in team fights.
Synergies between Trundle and Maokai
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Is Trundle better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Trundle that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Maokai is a pretty good ally for Trundle. By locking into the same team as Trundle, he improves their win rate by 2.8% to 55.5%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Trundle and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Trundle. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Trundle players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Trundle and Maokai together, you may not be providing your other teammates much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Trundle in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Trundle and Maokai synergy build include Spirit Visage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 55.5% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Trundle and Maokai pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.5% winrate overall.
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